Ebook: Artificial intelligence research and development: recent advances and applications

Title Page -- Preface -- Conference Organization -- Contents -- Machine Learning -- Approximate Policy Iteration with Bellman Residuals Minimization -- A Randomized Algorithm for Exact Transduction -- Comparing Feature-Based and Distance-Based Representations for Classification Similarity Learning -- Computer Vision I -- Bag-of-Tracklets for Person Tracking in Life-Logging Data -- Improving Autonomous Underwater Grasp Specification Using Primitive Shape Fitting in Point Clouds -- Emotions Classification Using Facial Action Units Recognition;This book presents 34 original papers accepted for presentation at the 17th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2014), held in October 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA), was created in 1994 as a non-profit association to promote cooperation among researchers from the Catalan-speaking artificial intelligence research community. Conferences are now held annually throughout the Catalan-speaking countries. The papers in this volume have been organized around different topics, providing a representat.